Molly Greene

Professor Greene studies the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek world. Her interests include the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the experience of Greeks under Ottoman rule, Mediterranean piracy, and commercial history more broadly. After earning a B.A. in political science at Tufts University (1981), Professor Greene spent several years living in Greece and then completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton (1993), where she studied Ottoman history. Upon graduating she joined the Princeton faculty with a joint appointment in the History Department and the Program in Hellenic Studies. Her first book, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2000), examines the transition from Venetian to Ottoman rule on the island of Crete, which the Ottomans conquered in 1669. Her second book, Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Mediterranean (2010) considers the early modern Mediterranean as an international legal space, using the conflict between Greek shipping and the Knights of St. John on Malta as a way into this question. Professor Greene has contracted with University of Edinburgh Press to write a history of the Greeks under Ottoman rule.

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